English: Defining Terms Flashcards
1
Q
What is register?
A
The type of words used in a particular setting depending on the audience and situation
2
Q
What is authorial intent?
A
The message the author seeks to get across to their target audience
3
Q
What is lexicology?
A
The study of words–their definition, type and behaviour
4
Q
What is morphology?
A
The parts of words and their meanings
5
Q
What is syntax?
A
The structure of phrases and sentences
6
Q
What is a free morpheme?
A
A morpheme that can stand alone as its own word
7
Q
What is a bound morpheme?
A
A morpheme that cannot stand along as its own word
8
Q
What is a derivational morpheme?
A
A bound morpheme that changes the meaning of a word
9
Q
What is an inflectional morpheme?
A
A bound morpheme that changes the tense or plurality of a word
